The Relationship between Autism and Psychiatric Disorders in Intellectually Disabled Adults

Autor/inn/en	La Malfa, Giampaolo; Lassi, Stefano; Salvini, Roberto; Giganti, Chiara; Bertelli, Marco; Albertini, Giorgio
Titel	The Relationship between Autism and Psychiatric Disorders in Intellectually Disabled Adults
Quelle	In: Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 1 (2007) 3, S.218-228 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-9467
DOI	10.1016/j.rasd.2006.10.004
Schlagwörter	Autism; Foreign Countries; Depression (Psychology); Correlation; Mental Disorders; Mental Retardation; Incidence; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Psychopathology; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Ausland; Korrelation; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Geistige Behinderung; Vorkommen; Psychopathologie; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Italien
Abstract	Intellectual Disability (ID) shows a high comorbidity with psychiatric disorders with a great variability in the prevalence rates. An important subgroup is represented by subjects with ID and autism or other autistic spectrum disorders (PDD). The purpose of the present study was to assess PDD with specific screening tools in a population of people with ID and compare the groups with or without PDD through the administration of a psychopathological scale in order to verify the differences of psychiatric disorders' rates. The study was conducted on 90 subjects attending daily centres or residential centres in Florence, Italy. In order to assess the presence of PDD, the PDD-MRS was administrated, while for the assessment of the psychopathological aspects we have used the DASH-II. The presence of a psychiatric disorder has a significant effect on anxiety, depression and organic syndromes and statistically significant differences have been registered in many DASH-II subscales. The statistical comparison between the two groups shows that PDD was clearly correlated with an increased presence of psychiatric disorders. The variable PDD could be considered as a vulnerability factor for psychiatric disorders. However there was still the need to focus on categorical diagnoses, in order to increase our knowledge about the concept of vulnerability in people with ID. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10